| Notre-Dame de Paris (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Hugo, Victor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1406568988 ISBN-13: 9781406568981 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Three extraordinary characters are caught in a web of fatal obsession. France's most celebrated Romantic, Victor Hugo, vividly depicts medieval Paris, where all life is dominated by the massive cathedral. His passionate enthusiasm for Gothic architecture is set within the context of an epic view of mankind's history. Alban Krailsheimer's new translation presents a fresh approach to this monumental classic. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: 843.7 |
| Lexile Measure: 1170 |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 6" W x 9" (1.76 lbs) 552 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La L gende des Si cles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. In the Englishspeaking world his best-known works are often the novels Les Mis rables and Notre-Dame de Paris (translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) (1899). Though extremely conservative in his youth, Hugo moved to the political left as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panth on. Amongst his other works are: Napoleon the Little (1852), The Man Who Laughs (1869), The History of a Crime (1877), Poems (1888) and The Memoirs of Victor Hugo. |
